Meaning of Lick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
2. An instance or opportunity to earn money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
3. A surname.
4. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
5. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
6. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
7. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
8. A stroke or blow.
   colloquial
9. A small amount; a whit.
   colloquial
10. An attempt at something.
    informal
11. A short motif.
12. A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
    informal
13. An act of cunnilingus.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The cat gave its fur a lick.”

“Give me a lick of ice cream.”

“a lick of paint”

“to put on colours with a lick of the brush”

“When ſly Jemmy Twitcher had ſmugg'd up his face / With a lick of court white waſh,”

“The birds gathered at the clay lick.”

“We used to play in the lick.”

“Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.”

“I went in big licks, and, although it was a good-sized pile, I chopped it all up before he got back at night.”

“Who gave you your worst licks and why?”

“You don't have a lick of sense.”

“I didn't do a lick of work today.”

“Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting a lick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?”

“Well, my album did well, but "Ruby" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out. […] Then Waylon Jennings took a lick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song.”

“There are some really good blues licks in this solo.”

“The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.”

“Dandy Marx, a perfect gentleman in the true sense of the word, now drives forth under single harness ; whereas “once upon a time,” he rushed over the ground at a “big lick,” reigning his four beautiful roans, and continually kicking up an extra excitement among the “fashionables.””

“You up for a lick tonight?”

“Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick / We don’t miss”

“You see a lick and you rob him / I see a lick then I stop on the block and I pause him”

“JAEKAE: Free all my G’s, they got locked for licks. Five minutes of fame and I’m hittin’ for six. Past seven, eight, nine, and you’re in my bits.”

“Remember on my first lick, got lost in a house / Had to dip, bro, quick, before the dogs came out”

“Is it really necessary how I live the way I do it I live for the lick – you see me breathing, I just proved it”

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